1890-1989 In 2018, in the Facebook group “I Belong to Bolton”, Ian Christopher Brody asked about memories of Holy Harbour. Mark Winrow shared a photo of a card with the following history by Alan Barton: The club was formed in 1890 and its association with the Church was to be
Lexicographer Michael Quinion used to run a website called World Wide Words (1). One of the articles on the site (2) tried to answer the question of the origin of the phrase “The Full Monty”:- “The release of the film with that title in 1997 provoked requests to explain what
In the Local History Archive at the Central Library, there is the Log Book for Halliwell Jubilee (Mixed and Infant) School from 1898 to when the school closed in 1909. The former school is now St Peter’s Parish JubiCentre, and the monthly home of the Halliwell Local History Society. A
The 28th March 1868 edition of the Bolton Chronicle had an article about a group of notables from Halliwell trying to get a second police constable for Halliwell:- On Thursday, a deputation from the township of Halliwell, consisting of the Rev. Arthur Packer, incumbent of St Paul’s, Mr Charles Taylor,
‘This lock up house, containing two cells, and forming part of the police station, in which a constable resides, is situated about the centre of the town. It is about 6 feet below the street in front, but on a level with the ground at the back. One of the
There are two websites which have information about pubs in Bolton that have closed over the years. One is a national project ( Lost Pubs In Bolton, Lancashire ) which is arranged in alphabetical order, but with little detail apart from the address and some photos. The other is a
The website buildingourpast.com has an interesting article (1) about the history of Montague Burton. It includes the following: “Growth did not stop with the [1918] Armistice. The demand for ‘demob’ suits enabled Burton to take over the vast Hudson Road Mills in Leeds from the wholesale clothiers Albrecht & Albrecht.
Pat, who was born in 1930, went to St Peter and St Pauls. She remembers getting into trouble with the headteacher: “We had another quite a biggish playground and there were railings at the bottom end and that’s where the boys school was and that was their playground. So we